Sharp County record., 1887-10-27

THE New Y OrK COWHIeTCWt'D"'''''''"
FIRE record for September shows an aggre-
gate loss of s., ,937 900 against s., 100000 IN
September, 1886. The total for the trst
nine months of the current year is S95, loo,-
800 against $50, 4OO,OO for the corresponds
ing period of 1886, ,
CARDINAL GIBBONS red hat has arrived
from Rome.
CONGRESSMAN JOHN j. O'NEILL, OF MIS-
souri,, has returned from Europe.
MEXICO is to allow presidents to be ell
gible for a second term.
ALARM is again felt at the unfaVoraDle
turn in the health of the Crown Prince oi
Germany. -,
THE strike Of the Louisville & NashVllle
brakemen is spreading to the SWltcnmen
The issue between France and SPAN
over their respective policies toward
Morocco is becoming very pronounceu'
and may lead to serious complications
EBENEzER SHERMAN, one of the pioneer
residents of Davenport, Ia, died al MS
home in that city on the 9Th, of cancer Oh
the stomach. He was seventy'tour years
of age, and possessed considerable 'aIua'
bic city real estate.
AT Albany, N. Y, on the 6th' justice
Ruger granted another stay in the case oi
Jacob Sharpe.
ARTHUR H. SMELL, acting paying teller
of the Fulton Bank, Brooklyn, was ar
rested on the 9th. He was short IN MS ac'
counts to the amount of $l2,OV'
TED SULLIVAN, the baseball manager
is in Minneapolis, Minn., with the ln'eh,
tion of negotiating for the purchase OF
the Minneapolis ball club. Hels bacKeu
by wealthy syndicate.
NINE persons have been arrested on
charge of being implicated in the muruer
of John Kinsella, near Arthlow, Ireland
Kinsela was killed while resisting emer-
gency men attempting to seize cattle.
A. SELLER, of Cleveland, o., and west
ern agent for Reeve, Osborn & Co., tea
merchants, New York, was arrested IN
Marion, O., on the 9th, and taken 10
Cleveland to answer to charge OF au'
ministering poison to his wife,
THE National convention OF funeral dl-
rectors, in session at Pittsburgh, Pa, adj
iourned finally on the 9th, after the
election of officers. The next convention
of the association will be held at Balti-
more on the first Wednesday in October,
1885,
Mr.. NJ. DO&NELLY, an expressman in
Dubuque, Ia, was killed on the 9th by his
horse running away. In jumping of, he
was thrown back under the wagon, the
wheels passing over his neck. He lived a
few hours.
AMONG the passengers from Liverpool
by the steamer City of Rome, which ar
rived in New York on the 9th, were Com
modore Foote and Miss Nestle, Governor
Marmaduke of Missouri, Hon. H. Jermlng'
ham, NJ. Lord, j. T. Browne and Nine. Pyk'
Newsom, the Swedish urima donna.
Two men, named James Delaney and
Dennis O'Shea, were struck by an in-com-
ing train on the Union Pacific road at Oma,
ha, Neb., on the 9Th, and instantly killed.
They were each in buggy, and were run,
ming arace on their return from the funeral
of Patrick O'Shea, who died in the Joliet
Qll.) penitentiary October 4.
A FIRE broke out on the 9Th in Ephraim
How's distllery in New York. The build
ing is three stories high, ana Oh DrlcK, ana
was filled with valuable spirits. The
whole stock was destroyed, despite the
efforts of the firemen to save it, and with.
in an hour the distillery was in ashes.
The loss on the building is $4,000, and On
spirits $15O,OOO.
AT Balmoral, on the 9th, the -Pri1cs~f
Wales unvailed Boehm'S statue of the
Queen, presented by the district tenantry
The Queen expressed thanks for the loyal
and kind address presented to her.
GENERAL FERRoN, Minister of War, has
gone to the eastern frontier of France to
make tour of inspection. An intrenched
camp is to be formed at Nice, and the gar
rison's at Toulon and Nancy are to be re-
inforced.
THE mother of Thomas Hughes, of En-
gland, the author of tom Brown at
Rugby" died at Rugby, Tenn, on the 9th.
Her son Thomas returned to England re-
Gently after visit to his aged mother.